Written by Dallas Willard (1935-2013), an American philosopher, speaker and writer on spiritual formation. This is an excerpt from his book “Renovation of the Heart.”
Thinking is the activity of searching out what must be true, or cannot be true, in the light of given facts or assumptions…It is a powerful gift of God to be used in the service of truth…We must apply our thinking to and with the Word of God. We must thoughtfully take the Word in, dwell upon it, ponder its meaning, explore its implications—especially as it relates to our own lives…We must thoughtfully put it into practice. We must seek the Lord by devoting our powers of thinking to understanding the facts and information of the gospel. This is the primary way of focusing our mind on him, setting him before us. When we do so, we will be assisted by God’s grace in ways far beyond anything we can understand on our own; and the ideas and images that governed the life of Christ through his thought will possess us.
We must pay the most careful attention, therefore, to what we have heard, so that we do not drift away. [Hebrews 2:1]
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